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Professor Lee White: Why the Congo Basin Matters to Everyone
Episode 99
Thursday, 29 October, 2026
The Congo Basin absorbs more carbon than any other tropical forest on Earth, yet it receives just 11 percent of international tropical forest funding. Professor Lee White, Special Envoy to the Science Panel for the Congo Basin, joins Lisa D. Smith on Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Podcast just after New York Climate Week, where he launched a new brief on funding tropical forests. Hear why the Congo Basin and the Amazon are the two chambers of the Earth’s green heart, how trees keep cities cooler and kids healthier, why science funding matters, and how modern farming can protect the forest. Also what happens when ecosystems fall out of balance, and what each of us can do. LINKS & RESOURCES: - Science Panel for the Congo Basin: https://www.spcongobasin.org - Scaling Tropical Forest Finance brief (SDSN): https://www.unsdsn.org/resources/scaling-tropical-forest-finance-perspectives-from-the-amazon-basin-the-congo-basin-and-borneo/} ABOUT OUR GUEST Professor Lee White CBE is Special Envoy to the Science Panel for the Congo Basin and an Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling. A joint British-Gabonese national, he has spent four decades working in tropical Africa. His roles include senior positions with the Wildlife Conservation Society, ten years directing Gabon’s National Parks Agency, and more than four years as Gabon’s minister of forests, environment and climate. Visit us for more episodes in the Big Blend Media House: https://www.bigblendmediahouse.com
